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Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
Bill Hayes · Bloomsbury
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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"If you are lonely or bone-tired or blue, you need only come down from your perch and step outside. New York--which is to say, New Yorkers--will take care of you."Bill Hayes came to New York City in 2009 with a one-way ticket and only the vaguest idea of how he would get by. But,... |
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True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray
James Renner · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 300
Format: eBook
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When an eleven year old James Renner fell in love with Amy Mihaljevic, the missing girl seen on posters all over his neighborhood, it was the beginning of a lifelong obsession with true crime. That obsession leads James to a successful career as an investigative journalist. It also gave... |
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Little Dancer Aged Fourteen: The True Story Behind Degas's Masterpiece
Camille Laurens · Other Press
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
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This absorbing, heartfelt work tells the story of the real dancer behind Degas's now-iconic sculpture, and the struggles of late nineteenth-century bohemian life of Paris.She is famous throughout the world, but how many know her name? You can admire her figure in Washington, Paris,... |
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Defiance: The Extraordinary Life of Lady Anne Barnard
STEPHEN TAYLOR · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant and unconventional figure, Anne Barnard lived a life that might have been the outline of a novel by her contemporary, Jane Austen, or by Edith Wharton.She was born in Scotland in 1772, lived at the heart of Georgian society, and yet defined herself by defiance of convention.... |
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Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage
Dani Shapiro · Alfred A Knopf
Pages: 160
Format: Print book
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The best-selling novelist and memoirist delivers her most intimate and powerful work: a piercing, life-affirming memoir about marriage and memory, about the frailty and elasticity of our most essential bonds, and about the accretion, over time, of both sorrow and love. Hourglass is an inquiry... |
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Every Last Tie: The Story of the Unabomber and His Family
David Kaczynski · Duke University Press, 2016.
Pages: 176
Format: Print book
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In August 1995 David Kaczynski's wife Linda asked him a difficult question: "Do you think your brother Ted is the Unabomber?" He couldn't be, David thought. But as the couple pored over the Unabomber's seventy-eight-page manifesto, David couldn't rule out the possibility. It slowly... |
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Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States
Samantha Allen · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A transgender reporter's narrative tour through the surprisingly vibrant queer communities sprouting up in red states, offering a vision of a stronger, more humane America.Ten years ago, Samantha Allen was a suit-and-tie-wearing Mormon missionary. Now she's a senior Daily Beast... |
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Scared Selfless: My Journey from Abuse and Madness to Surviving and Thriving
Michelle Stevens · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Michelle Stevens has a photo of the exact moment her childhood was stolen from her. In it, she's only eight years old and posing for her mother's beguiling boyfriend, Gary Lundquist - an elementary school teacher, neighborhood stalwart, and brutal pedophile. Later that night, Gary locks... |
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Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII
Gareth Russell · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 464
Format: Print book
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Written with an exciting combination of narrative flair and historical authority, this interpretation of the tragic life of Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII, breaks new ground in our understanding of the very young woman who became queen at a time of unprecedented social and political... |
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Now My Heart Is Full: A Memoir
Laura June · Penguin Books
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
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A deeply affecting memoir of motherhood and daughterhood, and how we talk about both, from popular writer Laura June"Laura June writes with wit and melancholy, unabashed joy and tenderness. . . . When I reached the end, I found myself in tears." - Roxane Gay Laura June's... |
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Ernest Hemingway: A New Life
James M Hutchisson · The Pennsylvania State University Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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To many, the life of Ernest Hemingway has taken on mythic proportions. From his romantic entanglements to his legendary bravado, the elements of Papa's persona have fascinated readers, turning Hemingway into such an outsized figure that it is almost impossible to imagine him as a real person.... |
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Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story
Matti Friedman · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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"Destined to become a classic text on the absurdities of war. . . A beautifully written account of a young Israeli soldier's experience. A stunning achievement." - Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and New York Times bestselling author of The Good Spy It was one small... |
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